#background

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write. ↗

— Jack Vance

#contributes #ever #everything #i #i think

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly. ↗

— Larry David

#degradation #mostly #sloth

I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#big #blues #church #gospel #gospel music

I wasn't a great background singer. ↗

— Faith Hill

#great #i #singer

Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#am #background #choreography #costumes #deal

Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate. ↗

— Bob Ehrlich

#among #backgrounds #common #contest #different

But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#had #i #neat #parents #people

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#any #background #college #come #european

I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education. ↗

— Alexander Wang

#brother #business #education #fashion #had

At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos. ↗

— Dee Dee Warwick

#demos #doing #good #i #making